SingingTreeYoga

Happy New Year Yogis. This year I will try to write more teaching into the blog starting with the basics and then moving deeper as you all practise your Yoga at various studios, ashrams and retreats. Let's start today January 2019 with a light, bright view of things. That the world can be a better place and help those who haven't discovered what a bit of stretching can do, to find that joy. So good luck out there: Happy stretching be it children's Yoga, adults Yoga, senior Yoga, Yoga for sports, Yoga retreats, Yoga to stay fit, Yoga to socialise, Yoga to tune-in, Yoga to qualify, Yoga to explore, Yoga to counteract pain. There's a Yoga class for everyone. 'Give this world good energy' 

Merry Stretch-making and all things Yogic this Christmas. I've arrived mid jet lag in the Southern Hemisphere...all the stars have changed and the water runs round the plug in a different direction. However Yoga is still fun and this week in the lead up to tomorrow's big day I've gone to my original ashram with my brother to do Yoga together. Love it! Happy and safe holidays ☺️🧘🏼‍♀️🌺 "Happiness will never come to  those who fail to appreciate what they already have."                                                                                                                                        Buddha

Often fixing a problem that you have is just about getting started. Have you started doing Yoga? Is it easing that sore back or those tight ham strings. Is it starting to make you feel less stressed? With less stress we automatically feel happier. I'm going to suggest that it has. So what's stopping you, if you haven't started?!! Just fill in my Opt-In page and start receiving free Yoga classes and sequences that I've designed to be enjoyable and easy to get started with Yoga. Sign up - for free and start easing that back pain, getting fit and slimmer and email me your results and any problems you are having. I'd like to help you 🧘🏼‍♀️☺️🌸

Did you manage to do your own 10-15minutes yoga and stretching this week? Good work! Well done! Yoga can really be the backbone to a full career in whatever it is you are most passionate about, whatever you love the most. Here at Yoga is where you can explore the change in your lifestyle, the flux that people go through these days in between jobs, changing career paths and let's face it today's stresses and strains require that we stay so very flexible. So I give you permission to step back in time, tell the boss you quit or whatever and... as they used to say on the 60's Morocco hippie trail, after the beatniks, the 'overland', go find yourself!  My fault,  my failure, is not the passions I have but in my lack of control of them.                                                                   ...

On a serious note I should have put in the headline 'economics' but here it's convoluted; ergonomics and economics of what women have to deal with on a monthly basis. Yoga can help with counteracting Menorrhagia or heavy bleeding during our monthly periods. In Iyengar Yoga we do a lot of training around helping to guide women through this physical process each month. That's why when you do find a regular Yoga practise, as a women, all your needs including child birth can be handled by a certified practitioner. Right, back to fixing your problem. Periods can be a painful fact of life. And expensive, especially as the need to be organic and sustainable with the process increases. The NHS states that most women will lose less than 16 teaspoons of blood (80ml) during their period, with the average being around 6 to 8 teaspoons. This is good information to know. You can measure yourself against the average and know that it's normal.... or that your system is sli...

So lately I've been toying with the idea of Big City Noise Pollution. Sounds like a song Bjork would write. Anyway. The accumulative obsession humans have with building things means that in the more populated cities one finds oneself utterly distracted by sound. Sounds of hammering, even more disturbing; 'Hammer Drills' heard of them? You might be thinking: what has this to do with Yoga. Well let me tell you Sadiq Khan.... or really I should be pointing finger at Boris Johnson, if you had incorporated ISO 20121 that provides resources to the best Event Sustainability Management System, improving the sustainability of events across the city as this standard was being developed (2012 Olympic Games, remember that London growth spurt) we might have a more harmonious and happy city. This standard saves an organisation money and time. I know, I researched and utilised it as the practical component of my Masters. It puts the powers that be in touch with the lil'guy...

Modesty isn't something that can be taught, I don't think. In Patanjali's philosophy there is emphasis through doing Yoga on modesty. This can be applied to thought processes too, to have modesty is to learn compassion and to have compassion you can understand your environment; other people's problems and pains, other animals and the environment's needs. Yoga isn't performative. I say this because of a sudden shift in the delivery, if you like, of Yoga in Western practise. Yoga is based on an eastern 2500 year old philosophy and is a mode of exercise that has become useful to our vocations here, in the Western world. A tool-kit to release day-to-day stress and peaceful, often communal mode of exercise. It has more similarities with Tai-Chi, than anything I can think of. Again an Eastern practise. I find some of the styles of Yoga out there grotesque in their interpretation. Mainly because of the freedom that Yoga gives in it's various translatio...